The European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA, has published an updated version of its Q&As on data reporting with respect to SFT under the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR).
In this latest version, the below Q&As relating to the reporting of the jurisdiction of the issuer was added as follows – as quoted:
Question 15: Should the fields 2.53 and 2.92 ‘Jurisdiction of the issuer’ be populated with the country code of the registered office of the issuer or of the country where the head office is located? [new // page 27]
Answer 15: These fields should be populated with the country of the registered office of the issuer (fields 2.54 and 2.93 ‘LEI of the issuer’), corresponding to the ‘Legal address’ in GLEIF data.
